Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her talent as acting and singing. Audra McDonald, who won seven Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the The 100 most influential people in Time magazine. People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the most prestigious honor bestowed to Americans for achievements in this field. She is blessed with a beautiful soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner She is equally at ease on Broadway and on the opera scene as she is in her film and TV roles. Alongside her theatrical work she continues to make a name for herself as a recording artist, regularly performing at major venues across the globe. McDonald was born in a musical family located in Fresno California. She was a classical singer who received instruction from The Juilliard School of New York. Her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical for Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. Through the course of four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her work on performances in the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his show Ragtime (1998) making an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. She won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and In 2012. In 2012, she won five Tony Awards, and she was the first one in the category leading actress, for her part of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. She made Broadway history when she was named the highest-rated Tony Award-winning performer. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill which was the part that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. In addition to setting the record for highest competitive wins by an actor she also became the first to win the award in the four categories of acting. The other plays she has appeared in are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first introduced to a television audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say:"The Delany Sisters first 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 TV remake from Disney/ABC of Annie and, in 2000, played a regular role on the NBC's cult series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. In the wake of receiving her first Emmy nomination due to her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. At the beginning of 2006, McDonald starred on the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an occasional actor on NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016 McDonald was nominated to win a fourth Emmy Award for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She starred in 2009 as U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. In the present, she's appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.